Former Pittsburgh resident and former Courier writer/photographer C Nathaniel Brown makes a new statement with his 8th publication entitled Shift Happens Then You Live.”

It’s a self help book that explores the unexpected and probable changes that occur in one’s life and gives perspective on how to view and handle them. C. Nathaniel Brown, now a 4 year Georgia resident, is an author and publisher who recently held a Book Signing Event at the Penn Hills Comfort Inn.

Accompanying him was Nicole Narvaez Manns, a Penn Hills resident who presented her newly published book entitled “Here’s Your Script,” another self help book offering scenarios and appropriate dialog with management and superiors to achieve promotion, salary increase and a better inter-personal work relationship.

The event was hosted by EX3 Books.

FAMILY SUPPORT—C. Nathaniel Brown with family.

NICOLE NARCAEZ MANNS—She is wife, mother of two and vice president and manager at BNY Mellon.

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]]>http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2015/08/01/c-nathaniel-brown-comes-home-for-book-releasesigning/feed/0rtmkyocumC. NATHANIEL BROWN WITH BOOK (Photos by Jackie McDonald)FAMILY SUPPORT—C. Nathaniel Brown with family. NICOLE NARCAEZ MANNS—She is wife, mother of two and vice president and manager at BNY Mellon. Cover to Cover…‘Only the Strong’http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2015/07/31/cover-to-cover-only-the-strong/
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Never underestimate yourself.

You can carry the weight of ten worlds on your shoulders, and still have time to do your job. You can lift spirits, move mountains, and haul out in a hot minute. You have more power deep inside you than you realize—but, as in the new novel, “Only the Strong” by Jabari Asim, you still have weaknesses.

Lorenzo “Guts” Tolliver never had reason to show a soft side.

Being soft, in fact, was detrimental to his life and his job as right-hand man for Ananias Goode, who more-or-less ran Gateway City. Softness wasn’t what you wanted a man to see as you broke his legs or killed him.

Well over six feet tall and looking like a tank, Guts was deceptively fast of feet and fists, and Goode something in Guts years ago that he liked. Through the decades, Goode learned to trust Guts, and he liked him—so when Guts asked to step back as Goode’s driver-body-guard-enforcer, Goode gave his blessing.

It was, Goode knew, all about a woman.

He knew because he, too, had a woman he wanted but really couldn’t have.

Years ago, when she was just fifteen, Dr. Artinces Noel watched her Mama wither away from grief, and she promised herself that she’d never fall that in love with a man. She might have kept her promise to herself—work, charities, her clinic, saving black babies from death-by-being-poor, those were her life—but then Ananias Goode came around one night with a stab wound that he wanted quietly stitched. One thing led to another, led to a regular Wednesday session at a local motel, but they couldn’t let anyone know.

Ananias Goode was still a married man.

Deep inside his well-appointed home, amid whooshing respirators and the smell of antiseptic, the comatose Mrs. Goode lay curled in a fetal position, a victim of the war her husband had with another gang, a war that also left her infant son dead. Remembering that, knowing it, was something Ananias Goode lived with.

And for the man watching him, it was also something Goode would die with…

Wow. Well, here’s the thing: I almost never read a book twice, especially a novel. I’d definitely make an exception for this one.

The most appealing thing about “Only the Strong,” I think, was that it seemed as though I lived inside the story itself, and finishing it felt like I’d been evicted. I felt unmoored. Author Jabari Asim does that: he draws a reader in with richly-worked characters who, though often despicable, are attention-grabbing; settings that you can almost step right into; and flashbacks that move the story forward at a perfect pace.

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In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the international slave trade more than a decade before, the ship’s almost 300 African captives were considered illegal cargo under American laws. But with slavery still a critical part of the American economy, it would eventually fall to the Supreme Court to determine whether or not they were slaves at all, and if so, what should be done with them.

Bryant describes the captives’ harrowing voyage through waters rife with pirates and governed by an array of international treaties. By the time the Antelope arrived in Savannah, Georgia, the puzzle of how to determine the captives’ fates was inextricably knotted. Set against the backdrop of a city in the grip of both the financial panic of 1819 and the lingering effects of an outbreak of yellow fever, Dark Places of the Earth vividly recounts the eight-year legal conflict that followed, during which time the Antelope‘s human cargo were mercilessly put to work on the plantations of Georgia, even as their freedom remained in limbo.

“[Dark Places of the Earth] is the important case about slavery that people have stopped writing about,” Bryant said. “The Antelope is the case that the Supreme Court had to decide, which had [precedence], the rights of liberty or the rights of property.”

Though the story told in Bryant’s book took place over 200 years ago, Bryant explained the narrative depicted is relevant in this day and age. Bryant said, “The Supreme Court does decide that property rights are superior to natural human rights.”

According to Bryant, Dark Places of the Earth is also a shocking story of child abuse. In researching the book, he discovered that out of the 258 individuals who were still alive when the Antelope was brought in to Savannah, Georgia, 41 percent of the captives were between the ages of five and ten.

Gessie Thompson, a fibroids awareness advocate, fertility coach, and author of HopeBeyond Fibroids, joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to talk about her 14-year battle with the often-times debilitating symptoms of fibroid disease.

Thompson told Martin that in many instances, fibroids are treated like a headache, but are really “a widespread epidemic; it affects over 80 percent of African-American woman by age 50.”

In HOPE BEYOND FIBROIDS: Stories of Miracle Babies & the Journey to Motherhood you can read Gessie’s full story of her inspiring journey to motherhood; her refusal to give up on her dream; and the heroic walk of faith she and her beloved husband Marc traveled. Rounding out the book are incredible and inspiring miracle stories of 15 other mothers, both biological and adoptive, who too continued to have hope beyond fibroids-hope that they would one day become the mothers they’d always dreamed of becoming.

Thompson, who is on the board of The White Dress Project, a non-profit whose mission is to “galvanize support and promote national awareness about the fibroid epidemic among women domestically and globally through education, research and advocacy,” shared her journey to overcome fibroids.

“I personally suffered through fourteen years battling fibroids, ten years of that — infertility — that was actually stemming from those fibroids. I had five fibroid surgeries, which ended in a hysterectomy this past March. Five other surgeries, which were from complications from those fibroids. A miscarriage, five IVF cycles.

“This is not a story, this is real — A hundred days in the hospital, plus my daughter actually fought the fibroids in my womb when I was finally pregnant after those ten years, and my heart stopped on the operating table.”

“But thank God we have a little miracle, Nia (her daughter), but the truth is, that is not everybody’s story.”

Thompson listed heavy bleeding, bloating, back pain, pain during sexual intercourse, sciatic pain, and infertility as symptoms of the condition. She also encouraged viewers to visit ChangeTheCycle.com as a location where women suffering with fibroids can learn about alternative methods for treating the disease.

Watch Gessie Thompson share her battle with fibroids, symptoms, and advocating for fibroid sufferers in the video clip above. For more information, visit www.HopeBeyondFibroids.com.

After a long day, nothing makes you feel better—especially when you pair soft tunes with hot bath and solitude. You might even add a glass of something tasty and a novel you’ve been dying to read. But in the new book “Balm” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the only thing that soothes is forgiveness and restitution.

Moving to Chicago had never been part of Sadie’s plan.

She’d supposed, instead, that she’d live in Pennsylvania after the War ended, and go on with her life as though there was never any war. Her parents had seen things differently, however: she was hastily married to a wealthy man she barely knew because it was safer that way. Sam purchased a house in Chicago, furnished it, and hired staff in anticipation of having a wife to display; Sadie might have even fallen in love with him, had he not been killed in a train accident.

She couldn’t mourn; she barely knew Sam, which made the staff uncomfortable. As they deserted her, Sadie knew she needed a maid. The voice in her head—an insistent voice that said he was a soldier once—sent her to Madge.

Born to a woman who was more interested in being a root doctor than in being a mother, Madge left her Tennessee home as a teenager—unloved by her Mama but knowing how to use plants and seeds to heal. She couldn’t say she liked working for Sadie, but assisting with séances left Madge with plenty of time to build her apothecary and a little business. It also gave her guilty time to spend with Hemp Harrison, who said he was a married man.

Long before the day when raggedy Rebel soldiers came down the plantation road looking for trouble, Hemp had fallen for Annie, and they married. Though he’d done something unthinkable, he loved her so much; after she was sold away in chains, he vowed to find her and make things right. With the War over, it was said that “millions” of former slaves had somehow landed in Chicago but was Annie among them? Was it right to move on without her?

Set during America’s spiritualist movement of the post-Civil War years, “Balm” is a bit of surprise: it’s not exactly a love story, not exactly a ghost story, not exactly a novel of amends. It’s closer to all three, and that only works sometimes.

While it’s true that author Dolen Perkins-Valdez writes with extraordinary beauty, those flowingly gorgeous words can slow the story down, which often mars the romantic aspect of it. I enjoyed the ghosty storyline—I found it interesting and accurate, but the spirit’s brother annoyed me beyond all reason and left me feeling restless.

This isn’t a terrible book, no. It’s slow, but it has three great main characters going for it and the overall authenticity will make historical novel fans happy.

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The recent news that Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman novel reveals her To Kill A Mockingbird hero Atticus Finch to be a racist shocked the literary world.

Actually, according to the Wall Street Journal on July13, Watchman was written by Ms. Lee in 1960 and presented to HarperCollins Publishers after she traveled to New York City from her native Alabama. Her editor reportedly was less impressed with her book than with its character development. The editor suggested she write a book about protagonist Scout before she was an adult. That proved momentous advice and resulted in the publication of Mockingbird, as Watchman was shelved.

To Kill A Mockingbird is set in 1930s small town Alabama and tells the story of lawyer Atticus Finch’s defense of a wrongfully charged Black man accused of raping a White woman. The fictional narrator, Scout, is Finch’s young daughter and the adult Jean Louise Finch in Watchman. Mockingbird has sold more than 40 million copies globally, has been translated into many languages, won the 1961Pulitzer Prize, and was released as a motion picture in 1963.

This book cover released by Harper shows “Go Set A Watchman,” a follow-up to Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” The book was released on July 14. (AP Photo/Harper)

The shocker stems from a lawyerly, wise, and kindly Mr. Finch—-who was portrayed in the Oscar-winning Mockingbird film by a bespectacled Gregory Peck—- morphing into an old Southern racist in Watchman. The riveting fictional image of the ultimately-doomed accused Tom Robinson portrayed in the film by Brock Peters—-trembling and protesting his innocence—-likely moved all but the most racist hearts.

The accidental events that enabled Harper Lee to create a hateful old Finch and retroactively recreate him as a beloved defender of equality also enabled an artful twist on a real-life Southern lawyer, a larger than life one, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.

Historians, journalists, and pundits have debated the apparent disconnects between Jeffersonian thoughts, actions, and words for more than 200 years. It is well known today that as a young man of slave-state Virginia, Mr. Jefferson drafted the flowery Declaration of Independence in 1776. What is less well known is that he, like Atticus Finch, represented an African American man in court—-in fact two men.

In the most studied of the cases, Howell v. Netherland, according to “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Courts of Virginia”(1829), the 20-something future president argued in 1770 that an enslaved Samuel Howell, whose grandmother was White and grandfather was Black, should be set free under Virginia law. Like Mr. Finch in the Robinson trial, Mr. Jefferson lost the case.

Unlike fictional Finch, whose 50-year secret burst forth in an elderly racist, real-life Jefferson displayed his contradictory liberty-loving/bondage-loving proclivities much of his adult life. Only 11 years after Howell was unsuccessfully litigated, a 30-something Mr. Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia that Black men preferred White women in the way orangutans desired Black women; appear to deal more in sensation than reflection; and in reasoning are inferior to Whites. As “a suspicion only”, he wrote of the inferiority of Black minds and bodies.

These 1781 observations were written merely five years after the “liberty”, “created equal”, and “unalienable rights” self-evident truths were placed into his Declaration.

If the 1998 DNA evidence and historians that points the paternity finger at him are relied upon, among the hundreds of slaves that he owned were six that he fathered; the mother was his slave and mulatto sister-in-law. The first of the children was born to a teen-aged Sally Hemings in his bondage and a middle-aged Thomas Jefferson.

History will determine whether the now number-one best-selling Go Set A Watchman will enjoy the critical and financial success of To Kill A Mockingbird. At the same time, Jefferson is judged to be among the greatest Americans/presidents by some; a racist villain by others. Of course, he died at age 83 in financial ruin.

Robert Hill is a Pittsburgh-based communications consultant.

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PAMELA NEWKIRK

The animals look a little restless.

Maybe they’re hungry, bored, or tired of being watched. They seem angry. Observing these creatures caged, it’s easy to believe that wild animals shouldn’t be penned like this—and in the new book “Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga” by Pamela Newkirk, neither should humans.

When visitors arrived at the New York Zoological Gardens in the Bronx on Sept. 6, 1906, they were probably there for more than just the “sunny and warm” day. Chief curator William Temple Hornaday knew that, and he stood at the gates, directing people to what he claimed was his “best attraction yet.”

At the very end of the Monkey House, past the chimps and baboons, visitors looked upon an orangutan penned with a “103-pound, four-foot 11-inch chocolate-colored” man that Hornaday claimed was a cannibal and that he knew as Ota Benga.

What he didn’t know, exactly, was how Benga got from Africa to America…

Samuel Phillips Verner had once hoped for recognition as a scientist and explorer, first traveling to Africa as a missionary, then as a hired acquirer of artifacts. Known as somewhat of an expert on “pygmies,” Verner had procured several young Africans and brought them to America. Rumor had it that he’d “gone insane.”

Whatever it was that drove Verner, he often created stories to fit the moment. He said that Benga asked to come to America. He claimed he’d saved Benga’s life in the Congo, which is possible because of atrocities being committed on behalf of King Leopold of Belgium. For a fee, he offered to leave Benga with Hornaday, and said he’d return shortly.

Instead, Verner appeared to have dumped Benga there, and fled.

Within days of Benga’s appearance in the cage, local ministers demanded his freedom, and they hired a lawyer. At first despondent (his appearance at the Zoological Gardens wasn’t his first experience), Benga became combative with handlers. Hornaday was forced to turn him over to Brooklyn Howard Colored Orphanage.

For the first time in years, Benga was free…

But was he? Author Pamela Newkirk leaves readers hanging, not on purpose but by necessity because “…the true story will probably never be known.”

What is true, though, is that this is one shocking account; my hand flew to my mouth in astonishment by the time I was on page 8 of “Spectacle,” then it got more intriguing: while Benga is the obvious focus of the book, his story is told more through his capturers, his handlers, and his helpers. Indeed, Newkirk introduces us to shady characters, as well as many good people, and she does it with a sense of the times in which things occurred. Then she’ll squeeze your heart dry with an ending that…ouch.

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In this seminal music memoir, Father of Funk George Clinton talks four decades of hit songs, drug abuse, the evolution of pop, rock, and soul music, his legal pitfalls, and much much more.

George Clinton began his musical career in New Jersey, where his obsession with doo-wop and R&B led to a barbershop quartet—literally, as Clinton and his friends also styled hair in the local shop—the way kids often got their musical start in the ’50s. But how many kids like that ended up playing to tens of thousands of rabid fans alongside a diaper-clad guitarist? How many of them commissioned a spaceship and landed it onstage during concerts? How many put their stamp on four decades of pop music, from the mind-expanding sixties to the hip-hop-dominated nineties and beyond?

When asked why he wanted to chronicle his story in his memoir, Clinton, “Father of the Funk” said, “Because of my court fights with the copyright issue over my songs, over all those songs.”

“What’s going on right now is a total conspiracy amongst the all of the record companies and the music society, ’cause so many of those records, samples were done with no law around it. They took care of each other under the table.”

They took the money from the rappers, they charged them, told them they was paying me. They were splitting it amongst themselves.”

Clinton explained he has taken numerous entities in the music industry to court as a result and said, “You’re going to hear a lot more ’cause NWA just put their movie out and so many of our songs are in that movie.”

“The companies themselves think I’m too broke to fight back now, they want to pay me for two (songs), not even [for] Atomic Dog,” said Clinton. He shared Flashlight2013.com as a location where viewers can obtain more information about copyright issues through the legal documentation contained on the site.

Clinton said he is not going to stop his fight to get what he is due from the record companies. He told Martin, “I’m not going to stop until I get hot enough to where I matter.”

“‘Cause if you not relevant, you can get on out of here ’cause all you doing is whining — I’m going to be talking, I ain’t going to be whining.”

Watch Roland Martin and the architect of the p-Funk, George Clinton discuss his new memoir,“Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin, Kinda Hard on You?” and his copyright dispute with entities in the music industry in the video clip above.

Be on the look out for new music from Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic and a collaboration with Clinton, Kendrick Lamar and Louie Vega that is bound to bring the funk.

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Gaye explained she wanted to write the book to “correct some of the things that people think are true; other books that were written about Marvin where they’ve written about our relationship, they really didn’t know a lot of what they were talking about.”

She described her relationship with Gaye and the world they lived in at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s as not being “as unusual as people would like to make it sound.”

“I had moments of discomfort, I had moments of absolute bliss, so it was a mixed bag,” she said.

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye.

After her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye—the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What’s Going On made him a superstar two years earlier. Despite a seventeen-year-age difference and Marvin’s marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown’s founder, the enchanted teenager and the emotionally volatile singer began a scorching relationship.

One moment Jan was a high school student; the next she was accompanying Marvin to parties, navigating the intriguing world of 1970s-‘80s celebrity; hanging with Don Cornelius on the set of Soul Train, and helping to discover new talent like Frankie Beverly. But the burdens of fame, the chaos of dysfunctional families, and the irresistible temptations of drugs complicated their love.

During their chat, Gaye also discussed some of the more intimate details of their relationship and how the timeless hit “Got To Give It Up“ came into existence. She told Martin, “It was a magical situation that continues to this day — with a lot more drama.”

…The “drama” being the $7.3 million copyright lawsuit against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke over “Blurred Lines.”

Creating a narrative for a young Black queer children wasn’t hard for freelance writer turned author Myles Johnson.

Pulling from his own life experiences, the Atlanta based writer along with illustrator Kendrick Daye helped bring to life the story of young Jeremiah Nebula — a kid getting ready for his trip to Mars — in the children’s book, Large Fears.

Speaking with NewsOne, the visionaries give new insight into the LGBT world and share what they hope to accomplish with the upcoming release of the children’s book.

Johnson, 24 and Daye, 27, come from different worlds but couldn’t be more alike. After meeting in Atlanta, Georgia’s vibrant art scene, Johnson worked with Daye’s former magazine and collaborated on several projects before cultivating the idea of a children’s book.

“Us at first, creating Jeremiah Nebula was a very just natural process because that’s who we are,” Johnson said. “We’re queer black men who used to be queer black children, and we’re writing a children’s books so who else would it be if not that. We wanted to be very honest because you don’t see the intersection of what happens when you take up space as a black person and as a queer person and a lot of times when you do see work happening for the queer community its for a white person.”

“When he told me he wanted to do it, it was a challenge for me creatively,” Daye said. “I think [it was] for him as well because we’re adults, we make adult work so to make something that was geared towards kids was a challenge for both of us. But the idea was there so I was like, ‘Yeah lets do it.’”

Over the years, children’s books about the LGBT community have been overwhelmingly white. One of the first books to target gay and lesbian parents was the 1981 Danish photo-book release of Jenny Lives with Eric and Martinby Susanne Bösche. To be divided in a community where the outside world places gays and lesbians of all ethnicities in one group is rather ironic, but sadly troubling.

Amazon’s Top 100 books only features a handful of children’s books–none focused on LGBT culture. It’s list for apps and mobile books in the Children’s section echo the same results.

In today’s world, protagonists have been a mix of black and white and topics have been about marriage and even gay and lesbian interracial adoptions. Case in point, Maurice Sendak’s 1993 book We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy. Although the characters sexuality is never revealed, it plays an underling tone. Jack and Guy are apart of the group of homeless children who witness the kidnapping of a another homeless black child by giant rats. After going through many challenges with the rats (believed to be a symbol of the rapid AIDS epidemic of the 90’s) the children are victorious in saving the young black boy and chasing the giant rats away.

Johnson and Daye give a similar narrative in their story. Jeremiah’s sexual behavior isn’t thrown in the face of the reader. Instead, it’s simply a part of who he is. His journey in traveling to an unknown world and facing his insecurities is something the creatives want readers to understand.

Source: Kendrick Daye

“I think that Jeremiah Nebula–even though the book is a children’s book and it’s light-hearted and it’s inspiring,– will show more,” Johnson said. “I think the politics and the philosophy inside of it is really kind of radical and hard because he’s taking up space and he’s going to have to struggle in a way that a lot of people are never going to know. It’s going to be an internal one and an external one.”

Johnson and Daye are also hoping to inspire queer black children to live their lives freely and believe that any dream is possible.

“I think that that’s so necessary for people of color, specifically queer people of color to be able to get an affirmation that their stories and their dreams are valid and an early age,” Johnson said. “I don’t understand why that would be stripped from us. Why not know that we can do anything or that we can go to Mars or just be happy, like why can’t we know that at an early age? That was very on purpose, you know cause we could’ve made him quirky and black and said the same story and it would just be like ‘Oh he’s just an outcast,’ but no he’s a black boy who loves pink things and we all know what that inclination means. It means he’s probably going to have a queer life narrative and that was really important for us.”

Source: Kendrick Daye / Getty

After raising money to create their book through a crowd funding site, the friends are taking Jeremiah Nebula on the road. The guys are currently preparing for a workshop seminar where they’ll read Large Fears to children all over the country. Their first workshop is set to kick off July 25 in Atlanta.

“We’ll be doing like Large Fears workshops with the kids, which includes like a reading of the book and self-confidence building exercises with kids,” Daye said.

“You never see narratives like this we really wanted to make sure that this book wasn’t just another book that kind of collects dust next to queer books, but to say like ‘well we have a black one’ so that’s what we do, we wanted to make it a complete experience and we wanted it to be something that kids can really engage with and adults can really engage with and understand what its like to have a child that’s different even though this child is queer,” Johnson added. “Parents of color all over the world that I’ve engaged with since we started this, have children who they see don’t fit the box that culture tells them to be. You know, the man has to be hyper-masculine, the woman has to be hyper-feminine and submissive and if you at an early age show a want for anything outside of that you feel ostracized at an early age and there’s so happy that there’s a character that kind of, is still adventurous, still has dreams and still wants to conquer the world and do what I think every kid should want to do but doesn’t necessarily align with playing with GI Joes and the color blue.”

Johnson and Daye are also extending their workshops to community centers, camps and organizations from all over the country.

To request the team to come to your town and to learn more about Large Fears, check out their site here and follow them on Twitter.

PHOTO CREDIT: Kendrick Daye

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